Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP). 2018

This toolkit provides tribes with a framework and timeline when creating a climate change adaptation plan. It includes an adaptation template, worksheet, guides, and includes examples of climate change adaptation plan for tribes throughout the nation.

Conservation Biology Institute. 2018

Data Basin provides technical specialists, decision makers, and members of the interested public with the ability to access, interpret, analyze, and communicate using conservation science data. Data Basin is a web-based platform that integrates … science, mapping, and people by providing mapping tools to create custom maps, collaborative workspaces, access to biological, physical, and socio-economic geospatial datasets and more.

International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification. 2017

Ocean acidification

Planning and policy guidance

To facilitate the development of ocean acidification (OA) Action Plans, the OA Alliance has created this Action Toolkit as a reference aid. The OA Action Plan Toolkit contains both regulatory and non-regulatory actions and is meant to … be a source of inspiration, and a listing of suggested actions that members might consider when crafting their own OA Action Plan.

NatureServe. 2018

NatureServe provides value-added tools and services that are developed to transform this information into actionable knowledge in the service of scientific understanding and biodiversity conservation. In operation since the 1970s, the NatureServe … Network is a successful example of a distributed network of biodiversity inventories. Access to conservation information, climate change vulnerability indices for biodiversity, and other indicators and maps.

U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 2018

Ocean acidificationTemperature

Data, tools, and research

Developed to provide easy access to information about the latitude and depth of marine species involved in commercial and recreational fishing over time. The web tool delivers up to date information on changes in the latitude and depth … of marine species in each US marine region over the last 40 years using data collected annually by NOAA Fisheries and others. Users can track shifts in latitude and depth over time for individual species or groups of species in a region or nation-wide.

Point Blue. 2018

The Climate-Smart Restoration Toolkit provides resources for restoration practitioners interested in designing their projects in a way that prepares them for climate change. Resources include a restoration checklist, riparian restoration design … database for a number of counties, and more.

Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson. 2016

California Senate Bill 379 requires all cities and counties to include climate adaptation and resiliency strategies in the safety elements of their general plans upon the next revision beginning January 1, 2017. The bill requires the climate … adaptation update to include a set of goals, policies, and objectives for their communities based on the vulnerability assessment, as well as implementation measures, including the conservation and implementation of natural infrastructure that may be used in adaptation projects. Specifically, the bill requires that upon the next revision of a general plan or local hazard mitigation plan, the safety element is to be updated as necessary to address climate adaptation and resiliency strategies applicable to the city or county.

United States Department of Agriculture. 2015

This report describes the potential vulnerability of specialty crops, field crops, forests, and animal agriculture to climate-driven environmental changes. The purpose of this analysis is to describe regional vulnerabilities to climate change … and adaptive actions that can be employed to maintain productivity of working lands in the coming decades.

California Natural Resources Agency. 2018

California state agencies collaborated to compile each of these examples, associated with Safeguarding California's 2018 update, to show how California is preparing for and adjusting to various extreme events brought on by climate change. … Each of these examples highlights unique strategies, funded by the state, to combat and adapt to the effects of climate change. The examples are tagged with icons from the Safeguarding California Report, classifying stories by sector. This example focuses on the Cal-Adapt's useful to the energy sector.

Ocean Science Trust. 2016

Ocean acidification

Data, tools, and research

Although ocean acidification is a global phenomenon, emerging research indicates that, among coastal zones around the world, the West Coast of North America will face some of the earliest, most severe changes. In an effort to develop … the scientific foundation necessary for West Coast managers to take informed action, the California Ocean Science Trust established and coordinated a scientific advisory panel in collaboration with California’s ocean management counterparts in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. The resulting West Coast Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia Science Panel created this document which presents actions that can be taken now to address ocean acidification and hypoxia. In addition to this document, the Panel has produced a number of longer supporting documents intended for agency program managers and technical audiences.